TAHOKA – The community’s first ever Cinco de Mayo festival was held May 8, and even organizers deemed it a huge success, with good attendance and fun entertainment for all ages during the six-hour event. The fun started at 4 p.m. and continued until 10 p.m.
Shock turned to grief and mourning Tuesday morning as word spread that a longtime Lamesa resident who had been a deputy sheriff here up until just a couple of weeks ago was killed in the line of duty at his new job in Eden.
Lamesa city officials are now on the search for a new city manager after Sean Overeynder resigned from the job Friday.
Nineteen members of the graduating class at Sands High School in Ackerly are scheduled to receive their diplomas this coming Friday in the first graduation ceremony for schools in Lamesa and the surrounding area.
Lamesa school board members held a special meeting Tuesday for three reasons: to canvass the votes from the May 1 election, administer the oath of office for two incumbents and a newcomer, and appoint new officeholders.
Members of Lamesa Fire Rescue were among those lining a stretch of U.S. Highway 87 in Lamesa Wednesday morning as a caravan of law enforcement vehicles came through town escorting the body of slain Concho County Sheriff’s Sgt. Sgt. Stephen Jones back to a funeral home in San Angelo. The bodies of both Jones and Samuel Leonard, a former Dawson County deputy who also was killed in Eden Monday, were taken to Lubbock Tuesday for autopsy. Dawson County Hospital District EMS ambulances were located across the street from the fire trucks as the caravan came through Wednesday, with dozens of other local residents also lining the highway. LPR photo
According to a posting Wednesday morning on the Concho County Sheriff Office Facebook page, two bank accounts – one for each of the fallen deputies – are being set up at The Eden State Bank.
Monday’s deaths of the two deputies in Eden drew formal comments from a number of elected officials, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott and area Congressman August Pfluger.
The following were among the many calls received recently by the Lamesa Police Department:
With only one item on the agenda, members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court expected a special called meeting Tuesday afternoon to last only a few minutes.
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